Studies of animal populations often use tags to track the fate of individuals and assume that there is no adverse impact. Work on penguins shows that seemingly innocuous flipper bands affect survival and breeding success. See Letter p.203
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Wilson, R. The price tag. Nature 469, 164–165 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/469164a
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